For most of their lifetimes, C# and VB.NET have evolved at their own pace and in their own ways (C# added iterators, VB.NET didn't. VB.NET added XML Literals, C# didn't. etc, etc...). Today, Luca Bolognese and team have embarked on a new approach to how
.NET's premiere languages will evolve going…

This week's weekly WF/WCF Screencast series shakes things up a bit. This week is the first in the series covering Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). We will be alternating back and forth between the WF and WCF technologies each month.
In this short video, CSD MVP Matt Milner
from PluralSight…

Despite all of the advances in automated testing tools and frameworks over the last decade, manual testing still constitutes the lion's share of testing effort within most software development organizations.
This episode of 10-4 will introduce the new capabilities in Visual Studio Team System…

The week of November 10th is Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 week on Channel 9! We'll have 12 videos going live this week featuring interviews with various members of the Visual Studio and the .NET Framework product teams, including several screencast
demonstrations of the latest…

In this video I chat with
Andy Bybee (Principal Program Manager Lead), Allen Hafezipour (Senior Program Manager) and Nirav Shah (Senior Dev Lead). These are some of the folks on the Dynamics CRM team thinking hard about code on the server.
Back in October I spent some time chatting with the…

Last year the Coding4Fun/Channel 9 guys asked me to work on a few things for MIX10. One of these items was a way to output a webcam stream to Windows Phone 7 for use with Clint's t-shirt cannon project you may have read about. I figured the easiest way to accomplish this was by using a network/IP…

Async involves some new concepts. They're not difficult; just unfamiliar. Over the past year Lucian Wischik has been watching how people use async/await in C# and VB. This series distils out the three top async patterns and anti-patterns, and top three tips for writing your own async libraries.…

Erik Meijer interviews .NET team PM Immo Landwerth and Software Developer Andrew Arnott. The topic is Immutable Collections, a new set of immutable types for .NET. You can play around with these today as part of a preview release (NuGet link below). Tune in! Niners asked questions in advance and…

In this episode of 10-4, we start taking a look at Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework. We'll look at some of the surface-area of the Parallel Extensions API and provide you with enough information to start working with it yourself in the Visual Studio
2010 CTP VPC.
Remember that we…